>>2609740>Odd that someone who claims to enjoy astronomy would mock an amateur for having an amateur scope.There are good beginner scopes and there are absolutely trash department store toys that are known as Hobby Killers for their elevated ability to turn people off from the hobby. It's very much a hobby that requires at least a bit of cash to get into the door (not as much as Astrophotography, which requires literal thousands of dollars for even a basic entry-level setup), so seeing trash scopes being sold for a hundo which are inexplicably designed to provide their users the absolute worst experience possible (our 50mm scope can provide up to 566x magnification! wow! See the aliums fapping to human porn on mars!) is something that hurts my soul.
And it's not JUST department store scopes, too. Celestron managed to make a hobby killer that looks like an actually decent scope, but it's a Bird-Jones design (sacrifices optical quality for more focal length) and packages it with too many high-power eyepieces and barlows. The average user is gonna set it up, put some stuff in, and isn't going to see shit, then write off the scope, and the hobby itself, as being a waste of time.
